BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Issue 3369, 6 December 1873, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Wellington, December 5. The share list of the Sugar Refinery Company opened this afternoon. 650 shares were taken up in about an hour. Auckland, December 3. A Paper Company, with a capital of LOO,OOO, in shares of L 3 each, has been projected. From the prospectus issued it is gathered that the Company intend to utilise phormium fibre. The following is tkc present state of the match between the Inteqirovincial cricketing team and the best local Eleven Interprovincial team : Ist innings, 16S ; local team : Ist innings, 72. Yates made 66, Bellars 26, Lankham 37, Dufaur 13, others small scores. December 6. Mr Alex. Saunders reports : -Buyers of National Insurance, 19s 6d ; Caledonian, 240s ; National Bank, 53s ; New Zealand Insurance, L7l 10s ; Bank of New Zealand, Ll6 10s. Napier, December 5. Four proprietors, the manager, and the editor of the Telegraph have been committed for trial before the Supreme Court for an article on Mr Sealey’s administration of the Land Office. The proceedings occupied the Court all day. Hokitika, December 5. His Excellency the Governor left for Christchurch per coach this morning. The Bishop of Row Zealand also left by the same coach. Christchurch, December 5. Mr W. S. MoorhoU.se being on a visit to Christchurch, a report gained currency that he intended to offer himself as a candidate for the .Superintendency, but the Lyttelton Times states on authority that he does not intend to resume political life in any shape. Great dissatisfaction is existing with reference to the management of the railways. The Provincial Council have declined to go on with the Government business until it is ascertained where the fault exists, and adjourned last night until Thursday next, in order to enable the Select Committee to bring up a report. The general impression is that the Government will be ousted. A meeting of the Central Boating Club will be held next Thurday, to prepare a programme and fix a date for the Interprovincial Regatta. Efforts are being made to alter the course from Kaiapoi to Heathcote, where it was held in 1871, but are not likely, however, to be successful. At a public meeting held last night, it was decided to hold the regatta on the Heathcote about February hext. The carpenters’ strike is virtually over. All who struck obtained work at an advanced rate of Us a day ; but some of the principal builders, rather than give it, obtained men from Auckland, and have sent to Hobart Town for more. All building labor is scarce. The bakers’ strike still continues. December 6. The Jockey Club has decided that the Autumn Meeting shall take place on the 6th or 7th April, The following are the events : First Day-Trial Plate, 100 sovs, weightier age, 1| miles ; St. Leger Stakes, 100 sovs, a sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two-year-olds, 6 furlongs ; Easter Handicap, 100 sovs, a sweepstakes of 7 sovs each, 1 mile; Hack Race, 10 sovs. Second Day—Handicap Hurdle Race, 73 sovs, a sweepstakes of 5 sovs, 2A miles, over 10 flights of hurdles ; Great Autumn Handicap, 200 sovs, a sweepstakes of 10 sovs, 2 miles ; Curragh Selling Handicap, 100 sovs ; All Aged Stakes, 100 sovs, a sweepstakes of 5 sovs, weights for age, 3 furlongs; Consolation Handicap, 40 sovs, 1 mile. Bluff, December 3. The Omen, s.s., arrived here at 5 p.m. today. She left Melbourne at 2.30 p.m. 29th ult. She brings 21 saloon and 35 steerage passengers, 37 horses, and 20 rams for all ports. Passengers for Dunedin are: Saloon —Messrs White, Pritchard, Badcock, Guthrie, Hunter, Miss Lightbody, Rev. Mr and Mrs Frazer, Captain. Caldcr, Mrs Goldie, and Master Goldie, Miss Hellebrand, Mrs Copeland ; 30 in the steerage. She has 177 tons cargo, 27 horses, and 20 rams, for Dunedin. Tauranga, December fi. The Luna is expected hourly with the Native Minister. The Superintendent shortly visits here on immigration business. Stock of every kind is selling high, and a large Native trade is doing. Many land speculators are in the district. Wanganui, December 6. Edward Lewis, late of the Wiliam Tapscott, fell from the foretopsail-yard of the Malay last night. Death was instantaneous. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Mki.uouhxk, November 20. Parliament was prorogued from 25th November to 31st December. The Lands Bill has been brought forward by the Assembly and lost. The cricket match between the members of Parliament and the Press was won by the latter. Another L 7,000 deficiency has been discovered in the Lands Office account of O’Farrell, the absconding clerk. Mr J. H. Power, a very old colonist, is dead. Special prayers will be offered up at all tire Anglican Churches on the 3rd December. The Lands Court is still occupied hearing arguments against the forfeiture of the squatting licenses for complicity with dummy selectors. The boy who set fire to the ship Pcnthe&iterr at Williamatowu has been committed for trial. A rule uisi has been granted for a new trial! in the case of Armitage v. Smith. Svijxev, November 29. The Tariff Bill has passed. The Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill has been read a second time in the Assembly. The steamer Sunfoo, with the Queensland mails, left Batavia for Brisbane direct on Monday last. The ten months' revenue exceeds the whole of previous